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G.YB. VBRONBE.

CLOTHES BUTLER.

No. 252,067. Patented'Jan. 10,1882.

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CORNELIOUS B. VERONEE, OF ATHENS, GEORGIA.

cLoTHEs-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,067, dated January 10, 1882.

Application tiled November 24,1880. (No model.) i

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, CoRNELroUs B. Veno- NEE, of Athens, in the county of Clarke and State of Georgia, have invented certain `new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Boiler Attachments; andLdo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had'to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. c

My inventionrelates to an improvement in clothes-boiler attachments, and is designedto provide a device of this character which shall be o f simple and durable construction, of easy and efficient operation, and capable of being manufactured a'nd supplied to the trade at a comparatively light cost. With these ends in of construction and combinations of parts, as will hereinafter be described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of a clothes-boiler,

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the clothes receptacle or frame, and Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof.

Let A represent a cylindrical boiler of any desired diameter and construction, and B an lower section, B', of which a, perforated plate, C, having an upwardly -extending ilange, D, is rigidly-secured directly over an imperforated convex plate, A', having a perforated depending flange, C'. The upper edge of the depending flange C' of the convex plate A' is provided with an outwardly-extending flange, D', which latter lits the boiler-cylinder quite snugly, andtforms an annular chamber, D2, between the flange G' and the inner wall of the boiler A, connection being made betweenltghis annglar chamber D2 and the space contained within the imperforate plate A' and its depending ange G' by meansof several perforations, a, formed in the upper part of the ange C'.

Perforated plate C, together with its upwardly-extending an ge D, forms the recepta cle for the clothes, and it is braced and held from rocking or careening motion when in use b'y posts a', the lower ends ot' whichirest on the outer edge of the convex imperforate plate A', the upper ends supporting the outer edges of the perforated plate C.

The plates C and A' are mounted on the lower section, B', of` the adjustable hollow cylindrical standard B, the upper section, B2, of which is adapted to lit over the lower section and have adjustable vertical movement thereon. Perforations b are formed at the upper` extremity ot' the section B2 of `the cylindrical standard, the open upper end of which is provided with a device for distributing the heated water as it comes up through the hollow cylindricalstandard, said 'device consisting of a cupshaped plate, A2, placed in an inverted porition over the top of the section B2.

A handle, B3, whereby-the adjustment of the cylinder is changed, is secured to the top of the cup-shaped plate A2.

The object of the vertical adjustment provision of the cylinder is that the device may be adapted to boil large or small quantities of clothes, using a greater or less quantity of water, as the case may be. If, for instance, the quantity of clothes to be boiled or washed is small and only a small quantity of water will be needed, the upper section, B2, Inay be telescoped over the lower section, B'and the heated water will not be required to rise such a distance before being thrown over the clothes.

An advantage is gained by constructing the perforated plate 0 with an upwardly-extending flange, inasmuch as all water discharged from the upper end of the cylinder must, in seeking a lowerlevel, pass through the clothes, as the dan ge will prevent it from running over the edge of the perforated plate. also will, by means of this flange, be prevented from workingover the edge of the said perforated plate and escaping the action of the waterf Itwilllbe seen that the water, after percolating through therclothes in the receptacle provided for their reception, runs through the perforatious in the plate C and onto the convex plate A', from which it is discharged over the edge of the flange D' into the annular chamber D2, where Vit deposits as a sediment The clothes i IOO the foreign matter extracted from the soiled clothes. The sediment is deposited between the lower edge of the depending ange C of l the plate A and the apertures a made therein,

which latter allow the water to ow into the space under the convex plate A.

Having thus described the construction ot` my boiler in detail, I will now proceed to describe its method ot operation.

The standard, together with its attached parts, is irst placed in the boiler-cylinder, and the clothes to be washed are packed in the receptacle provided therefor, and sufficient water, proportional to the amount of clothes in the boiler, is poured thereinto. When, now, the Water is heated it will rise in the hollow standard and be showered on the clothes from the upper end thereof. The water will percolate through the clothes and be discharged onto the convex surface of the lower plate, from which it will tlow over the edge ot' the lateral ange at the edge of the said plate, depositing.

through the apparatus in the same manner as described.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to provide a boiler attachment with a cup shaped plate having adownwardly-projecting flange; nor is it new to provide a central tubular water-passage in combination with the perforated plates of the device. Hence I make no broad claim to those features of construction; but

What I claim is- In a clothes-boiler attachment, the combination, with an inverted-cup-shaped plate provided with a perforated depending ange and a hollow telescopic standard, ot' a Hat perforated plate attached to the hollow standard above the cup-shaped plate, said ilat plate provided with an upright annular flange and braces c', connecting the outer edges of the `tlat and eup shaped plates, substantiallyas set CORNELIOUS B. VERONEE.

Witnesses:

E. L. BURBANK, CALHOUN A. BAIN. 

